And the newish one young girl's tend to use..... expanding on "lol" from text speak and using the word "lolage" in conversation referring to
something funny.

Also the word "gutted" meaning disappointed or upset

And the word "chuffed" for happy or pleased.

Although in typing this i realize i am guilty of using a few of those word's myself even though they irritate the hell out of me!......shoot me now!!

Is that where all the slang comes from in Britian? I must say that it seems all British people talk as if they are always asking a question. It took
me quite a while to get used to it after moving here 3 years ago and it still gets on my nerves, doesnt it?

I live on a military base and I hear everyone saying sorted.... EVERYONE!!

Agree with all of those. I'd add the phrase "I mean". EVERYONE says this and it drives me crazy! My other favorite is when people use the term
"literally" as a kind of exclamation point. I believe the term "literally" is used when you want to inform your listener that you are about to use
a term or phrase that has a literal and a figurative meaning and you are alerting them that your intention is the literal one. For instance , if
someone won a lot
of money at a casino, you might say he "broke the bank" not he "literally broke the bank" Whereas if a little kid smashed his piggy bank in order
to get the money out, you would be correct in saying "he literally broke the bank"

Originally posted by michael1983l
Period as in full stop
tyranny
have a nice day
blood (as in UK youths refering to each other as this)
Eyeraq as in the was G.W.Bush pronounces Iraq.
Get a handle on it

Thats all I can think of for now. But I have loads, I just can't remember them all.

oh and the American version of Aluminium as in alooooooooominum

Michael, old pal, I have bad news for you: First, good luck on changing the minds of Americans from "period" to "full stop." Second, and worse
news: You'll have to pry "aluminum" from our cold, dead hands.

The metal was named by the English chemist Sir Humphry Davy (who, you may recall, "abominated gravy, and lived in the odium of having discovered
sodium"), even though he was unable to isolate it: that took another two decades’ work by others. He derived the name from the mineral called
alumina, which itself had only been named in English by the chemist Joseph Black in 1790. Black took it from the French, who had based it on alum, a
white mineral that had been used since ancient times for dyeing and tanning, among other things. Chemically, this is potassium aluminium sulphate (a
name which gives me two further opportunities to parade my British spellings of chemical names)...

...Sir Humphry made a bit of a mess of naming this new element, at first spelling it alumium (this was in 1807) then changing it to aluminum, and
finally settling on aluminium in 1812. His classically educated scientific colleagues preferred aluminium right from the start, because it had more of
a classical ring, and chimed harmoniously with many other elements whose names ended in -ium, like potassium, sodium, and magnesium, all of which had
been named by Davy...

...Actually, neither version was often encountered early on: up to about 1855 it had only ever been made in pinhead quantities because it was so hard
to extract from its ores; a new French process that involved liquid sodium improved on that to the extent that Emperor Napoleon III had some aluminium
cutlery made for state banquets, but it still cost much more than gold. When the statue of Eros in Piccadilly Circus in London was cast from aluminium
in 1893 it was still an exotic and expensive choice. This changed only when a way of extracting the metal using cheap hydroelectricity was
developed.

It’s clear that the shift in the USA from -ium to -um took place progressively over a period starting in about 1895, when the metal began to be
widely available and the word started to be needed in popular writing...

This phrase I see everyday, and it's almost always used in threads that put forth ridiculous claims with zero evidence to back them up, or just after
a conspiracy/hoax has been debunked and the OP or other users want to keep the thread going for some reason. A conspiracy isn't something you pull
out of your @$$, it's generally found when a piece of evidence is discovered, which in turn sparks a debate.

- The magic bullet
- "We're bringing down building 7."
- A blurry photo of a UFO

"Be that as it may" is a counter to presented evidence. It's generally used after someone presents a reason for something, and the listener
interjects with "Be that as it may" as a way of saying "Even if that is the case; whether that is true or not."

Example:

"Why are you late for work."
"Morning traffic."
"Be that as it may, you know what time we begin here every day."

i.e.> I understand there was morning traffic, however, isn't there morning traffic every day?
Leave your house with enough time to allot for the morning rush."

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